Because the San Francisco Giants clinched a season-ending victory over the San Diego Padres final Sunday, all eyes in McCovey Cove got here to relaxation on a peculiar kayak.
This kayak was in contrast to the remaining: Rigged to its again was a floating barbecue with oysters gently effervescent atop.
Capt. Brian Casey (who is just not really a captain, however wore a hat denoting such throughout the sport in a nod to the injured Brandon Belt), piloted his vessel and served as head chef of the floating barbecue, too.
The Marin-based journalist mentioned he rigged his creation, which he calls the AmphiBBQ Mannequin 2000 Amphibious Assault BBQ, from an inside tube with a plank board hooked up to it. The Coleman range, which cooked the Hog Island oysters to perfection, I’m instructed, rested on prime.
A photograph of the AmphiBBQ.
Courtesy Brian Casey“All people was watching it and going, like, ‘Oh my god, I can’t imagine you probably did that,’” Casey recalled of his Sunday afternoon shenanigans. “All people thought it was cool.”
All method of tomfoolery and creativity will be present in McCovey Cove throughout a Giants sport. However SFGATE — and Casey — has by no means earlier than seen a full-blown barbecue cookout floating on the water. (Casey has spied charcoal grills on vessels, a probably dangerous proposition.) The AmphiBBQ could, actually, be a McCovey Cove first.
It wasn’t all oysters and champagne for Casey, nevertheless. He famous that the kayak “was really fairly onerous to paddle” whereas dragging alongside the AmphiBBQ.
“It’s nearly like an anchor,” he mentioned.
Brian Casey barbecues oysters on his AmphiBBQ throughout the Sunday San Francisco Giants sport in McCovey Cove.
Courtesy Brian CaseyHowever the cookout went off with no hitch on the cove, and Casey’s accompanying kayaker buddies/fellow Giants followers indulged within the “scrumptious” oysters, which have been topped with Hog Island’s signature chipotle bourbon butter sauce.
Casey mentioned he’s been a Giants fan since he moved to the Bay Space in 1987. Attending the final sport of the season has turn out to be a steadfast custom.
Final yr, when the Giants closed off the stadium to followers amid the continuing COVID-19 disaster, Casey mentioned he’d typically paddle out to the cove to assist his workforce.
“I feel lots of people had the identical concept,” he mentioned. On one such outing, Casey mentioned he even noticed former Giants proper fielder Hunter Pence.
Brian Casey barbecues oysters on his AmphiBBQ throughout the Sunday San Francisco Giants sport in McCovey Cove.
Courtesy Brian Casey“Somebody threw a ball at him to signal, and he reached out to catch it and dropped his telephone within the water,” Casey mentioned with amusing.
Casey doesn’t have an impeccable document on the cove himself. Sunday wasn’t really his first try at water barbecuing — he mentioned he initially tried it with an precise barbecue, however the kayak tipped over from the load. That’s when he obtained artistic along with his previous Coleman gas-powered range, which you’ll very effectively see once more within the postseason or subsequent yr.
What’s the purpose of the barbecue? “It is being there, it’s the environment, it’s the opposite individuals, it is doing nutty stuff like this,” Casey mentioned. “It’s simply quite a lot of enjoyable.”
